I've just posted a series of the Iranian city of Isfahan, which was such a great place to spend a week doing street and architectural photography. You can wander around the old buildings, so many of them devoid of other tourists. I happily spent perhaps an hour alone in the north dome-chamber of the Friday Mosque, throwing my lens cap at the pigeons nesting in the crevices (sorry pigeons) to get a shot of them flying out the windows. But plenty of people are around, should you care for crowds, and so many were happy to hang around with a tourist.
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Travels through Karakalpakstan
One of the first photosets I’ve posted comes from a few days I spent in Dashoguz (in Turkmenistan) and Karakalpakstan (in Uzbekistan). Both have been dismissed by some travel writers as horrible, dreary and depressing, which to me is disingenuous. I thought I’d provide some more thoughts that I couldn’t fit into the captions.
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